New Release: "Non-Perishable" — A modern psalm about drift and being kept
May 13, 2026
Out today: a new song called "Non-Perishable."
This one came out of wrestling with a truth that scripture keeps repeating in different ways across every dispensation: souls perish slowly long before they collapse completely. The Book of Mormon talks constantly about watching ourselves, remembering God, guarding our thoughts and desires, and staying rooted in Christ because drift happens quietly rather than dramatically. That pattern has hit me harder the older I've gotten.
Most of us are not waking up every day trying to rebel against God. We're just tired and distracted and moving fast and consuming constantly, chasing momentum because the modern world rewards speed more than depth. You wake up, grab your phone, rush through responsibilities, scroll through outrage, compare your life to strangers, numb yourself with noise, and somewhere in all of that your spirit slowly starts thinning out in little pieces at a time rather than all at once. That slow thinning is where this song came from.
The phrase "non-perishable" became a metaphor in my head for what happens when a life stays connected to Christ. Everything around us feels disposable now, from attention spans to relationships, from identity to convictions. People get consumed and replaced like products on a shelf, and even our own souls can start feeling temporary if we live disconnected long enough.
But Christ preserves things. Not artificially. Not by freezing us in place. He preserves us by changing us, refining us, tenderizing us, and teaching us how to remain rooted when everything around us is eroding. That's why so much of this song revolves around food, grain, preservation, and decay imagery. None of that was random.
The bridge is the emotional center of the whole track for me:
You don't shout.
You stay.
That's what changes everything.
There have been seasons of my life where I wanted dramatic answers from heaven while completely overlooking the quiet consistency of God's presence right in front of me. The more I've grown, the more I've realized that Christ's permanence is part of the miracle.
The ending of the song became less about winning spiritually and more about remaining. Staying connected long enough for grace to reshape you over time. That's discipleship to me now. It isn't perfection or image management or pretending to have life figured out. It's staying close enough to Christ that your soul keeps breathing while He slowly turns you into something eternal.